Emmanuelle Da Costa is a french composer born in 1988. In her music, Emmanuelle gives an essential role to the micro and macroscopic evolution of sound material and its influence on the overall form. She explores a whole range of dynamics and instrumental techniques, from saturation to almost imperceptible sound vibrations.

 

She collaborates with various ensembles, festivals and institutions: Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Ensemble intercontemporain, Icarus vs Muzak, la Maîtrise de Radio France, Canticum Novum, Présence Compositrices, le Chœur et Orchestre des Jeunes - Orchestre des Champs-Élysées, Espace culturel de Chaillol, Superspectives festival, European Patent Office, Mômeludies...

She also studied choral conducting : choral works occupy a special place in her production. She receives commissioned by la Maîtrise de Radio France, la Maîtrise de la Loire, la Maîtrise de Toulouse, l'Institut Français d'Art Choral, the choirs Syllepse, Dulci Jubilo, Artmilles, Festyvocal, Voices 21C...

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For the year 2024 – 2025, she is artist in residence with the Ensemble orchestral contemporain, conducting by Bruno Mantovani. This artistic residency will notably give rise to two world premieres for large ensemble: Les Dentelles du Cygne (May 24) and World Lines (co-commissioned by Grame CNCM, February 25).

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She also composed two operas for children's voices. Le Château des Carpathes (on a libretto by Henri Dalem, commissioned by the Maîtrise de la Loire) which received a price in 2022 for the writing of an original musical work from the Ministry of Culture. And Actéon ou le triomphe de la vacuité (libretto by Samuel Muller, commissioned by Radio France) which will be created in November 2024 by the Maîtrise de Radio France conducting by Morgan Jourdain, at Opéra national de Paris (co-production Radio France/Paris National Opera Academy).

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Exchanges, connections, interactions with other arts, and collaborations with other artists constitute the essence of Emmanuelle's music. She has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with artists such as Danceflore Cie and the performer/dancer Julie Debellis ( #REINES, or Résonance avec le Vivant). In 2023, she performed with Danceflore Cie and Compagnie Nomade Ariane, convocations, on a text written by Juliette Bargès (artistic residency at Le Magasin / Chok Théâtre).

In 2021-22, she was awarded the Prix Société Générale Musical Mécénat with Minotaure (Pierre-Louis Besson, performance painting / Lisa Heute, composition and accordion / Léa Cointet, cello).

Emmanuelle also composes for the image, she collaborates with Léa Ducos for the short film Olympiades (selected for the 2015 FID International film festival in Marseille, and the 2015 FIAC International Art Fair, Without Pictures or conversation? (selected for the 2016 FID International film festival in Marseille and the Wuhan Design Biennale in China), and with Elise Meunier for étude numéro un (recipient of the 2017 PACA Regional Contemporary Arts Fund).

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Emmanuelle Da Costa obtains a Composition diploma and a Choir Conducting diploma at Saint-Étienne Conservatory with high distinctions ; she received a master's degree in Musicology at Jean Monnet University. She holds a master's degree in Composition and a master's degree in Pedagogy of composition from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. She also studied electroacoustic music with Diego Losa. 

Her compositional thinking has also been developed during masterclasses and academies that she followed, among others with Stefano Gervasoni, Florentine Mulsant, Francesco Filidei, Xu yi, Robert Piéchaud, Guillaume Connesson... 

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